April 13 Born –
Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (1906) – Jazz saxophonist with Tommy Dorsey and
Benny Goodman.
Howard Keel (1919) – actor/Broadway singer (Oklahoma!).
Horace Kay (1934) – The Tams.
Tim Field (1936) – The Springfields.
Lester Chambers (1940) – The Chambers Brothers.
Bill Conti (1942) – film composer.
Guy Stevens (1943) – British producer, manager.
Brian Pendleton (1944) – guitarist for The Pretty Things.
Jack Casady (1944) – Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.
Lowell George (1945) – Little Feat.
Al Green (1946) – Soul/R&B/gospel singer/songwriter.
Roy Loney (1946) – The Flamin' Groovies.
Mike Chapman (1947) – Australian producer/songwriter ("Mickey").
Piet Sweval (1948) – bassist for Looking Glass and Starz.
Max Weinberg (1951) – drummer for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street
Band.
Peabo Bryson (1951) – R&B singer.
Jimmy Destri (aka James Mollica, 1954) – keyboardist for Blondie.
Louis "Thunder Thumbs" Johnson (1955) – The Brothers Johnson.
Wayne Lewis (1957) – Atlantic Starr.
Butch Taylor (aka Clarence Taylor, 1961) – keyboardist for The Dave
Matthews Band.
Hillel Slovak (1962) – Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Marc Ford (1966) – guitarist for The Black Crowes.
Aaron Lewis (1972) – vocalist for Staind.
April 13 R.I.P. –
Ritchie Cordell (2004) – pancreatic cancer. Age 61. Songwriter ("Mony
Mony").
Johnnie Johnson (2005) – Age 80. Pianist with Chuck Berry ("Rock And
Roll Music").
Tutti Camarata (2005) – Age 91. Composer/arranger, owner of Sunset
Sound Recorders and The Sound Factory, head of Disneyland Records.
Cliff Davies (2008) – suicide. Age 60? Drummer/producer for Ted Nugent
and Grand Funk Railroad.
April 13 album releases –
Diana Ross and The Supremes – Farewell (1970)
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (1973)
Michael Jackson – Music & Me (1973)
Roger Daltrey – Daltrey (1973)
Bob Marley and The Wailers – Catch A Fire (1973)
Thin Lizzy – Black Rose: A Rock Legend (1979)
Billy Squier – Don’t Say No (1981)
Fleetwood Mac – Tango In The Night (1987)
Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town (1987)
Glass Tiger – Diamond Sun (1988)
The Cross – Shove It (1988)
Green Day – 39/Smooth (1990)
Chris Isaak – San Francisco Days (1993)
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Echo (1999)
The Ataris – Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits (1999)
April 13 events –
1959 – Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks record "Forty Days" at Bell Sound.
1959 – Johnny Horton releases his single, “The Battle Of New Orleans”
b/w “All For The Love Of A Girl.”
1959 – Country music singer George Jones has his first #1 hit with
“White Lightning.”
1960 – Frank Sinatra records “Nice ‘N’ Easy” at Capitol Studios in
Hollywood.
1962 – The Beatles open the new Star Club in Hamburg, playing 172
shows in the next 48 days.
1965 – Roger Miller is the big winner at the 7th Grammy Awards - a
first for a country artist - taking Best Country & Western Artist, as
well as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance, Best Country &
Western Single and Best Country & Western Song for “Dang Me,” and Best
Country & Western Album for Dang Me/Chug-A-Lug. The Beatles win Best
New Artist and Best Performance by a Vocal Group for “A Hard Day’s
Night,” while Stan Getz wins Record of the Year for “The Girl From
Impanema” and Album of the Year for Getz/Gilberto. Best Vocal
Performance Female goes to Barbara Streisand for “People,” and Best
Vocal Performance Male is awarded to Louis Armstrong for “Hello
Dolly!”
1965 – The Beatles record "Help!"
1966 – Bob Dylan plays Sydney Stadium - the first of seven shows in
Australia.
1966 – The Beatles begin recording "Paperback Writer" and “Love You
To” at EMI.
1967 – The Rolling Stones play two shows in Warsaw, Poland. Tear gas
is used to disperse concert goers without tickets.
1969 – Diana Ross makes her first appearance as a solo artist on the
Dinah Shore NBC special, Like Hep.
1970 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Montreal Forum in Canada, and
becomes the first act to ever sell out the venue.
1970 – Genesis appears at Friars in Aylesbury, earning £10 for the
gig.
1972 – Elvis Presley performs at the Charlotte Coliseum in North
Carolina.
1979 – Five days into Van Halen's latest tour, David Lee Roth
collapses on stage in Spokane, Washington due to a stomach virus and
exhaustion.
1980 – After 3,388 performances and $8 million in ticket sales, Grease
closes on Broadway.
1982 – Still awaiting trial on drugs and weapons charges from an
arrest three weeks earlier, David Crosby is arrested again by police
backstage in Dallas preparing a "speedball" before a show.
1989 – Singer Jack Jones receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame.
1990 – Madonna begins her Blond Ambition World Tour in Chiba City,
Japan, playing the first of three nights at Chiba Marine Stadium.
1993 – The State of Massachusetts declares the day "Aerosmith Day."
1994 – After nine years of marriage, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley
announce their separation.
1996 – Rage Against The Machine appears on Saturday Night Live and has
their set cut short when they try to hang upside down American flags
on their amps.
1999 – Yoko Ono sues Frederic Seaman - John Lennon’s personal
assistant at the time of his death - accusing him of “an elaborate
scheme to exploit Lennon’s death by stealing priceless personal and
sentimental items.” In Ono’s initial lawsuit in 1983, Seaman was
charged with larceny and returned cartons of memorabilia, but not
everything, claiming he held the copyrights to photos and other items.
2000 – Paul McCartney’s girlfriend Heather Mills wins $316,700 in an
out of court settlement for the loss of her left leg in a 1993
accident with a motorcycle policeman.
2000 – Metallica sues Napster for copyright infringement. Also
included in the lawsuit are the University of Southern California,
Yale University, and Indiana University, which allowed downloading
from Napster.
2002 – Ravi Shankar's daughter, 23-year old Norah Jones, makes her
television debut on CNN International's The Music Room.
2003 – Madonna strikes back at web sites offering illegal downloads of
her new album American Life by flooding file-sharing networks with
decoy files that when opened have Madonna asking, "What the fuck do
you think you're doing?"
2007 – Julian Lennon sells a significant share of his financial stake
in Beatles songs co-written by his father to Primary Wave Music
Publishing for an undisclosed amount of money.
2008 – '60s Detroit Soul cult hero Nathaniel Mayer collapses from a
series of strokes, forcing the cancellation of several appearances. He
will not recover, and will die within the year.
2009 – After a five month retrial, Phil Spector is found guilty of 2nd
degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
2009 – In a list compiled by BBC Radio 2, Procol Harum’s "A Whiter
Shade Of Pale" is found to be the most played song in the UK in public
places in the last 75 years, with Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” at #2,
and The Everly Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Id Dream” at #3.
2010 – Brian May launches a new campaign to try to prevent the return
of legalized blood sports to the British Countryside. The SAVE-ME
campaign - named after May's song - calls on the British public to
consider how their vote will affect the welfare of animals, in
particular fox-hunting, stag hunting and hare-coursing.
2011 – A self portrait painting of/by Syd Barrett is returned to
London's Idea Generation Gallery a week after it was stolen.
2011 – Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne pay $1.7 million to the IRS after
learning that a lien had been placed on one of their homes because
their accountants hadn’t paid their taxes in 2008 and 2009.
2012 – Five of Tom Petty's guitars are stolen from a soundstage in
Culver City, California, where Petty and The Heartbreakers are
rehearsing for their upcoming worldwide tour. The stolen gear includes
a 1967 Blonde Rickenbacker, a 1967 Epiphone Sheridan, a 1965 Gibson SG
TV Jr., a Fender Broadcaster and a Dusenberg Mike Campbell Model,
which belong to Campbell himself. Petty offers a "no questions asked"
reward of $7,500 to anyone with information leading to the guitars'
recovery.
2013 – The Sunday Times announces their musicians Rich List a week
before its April 21, 2013 publication date, with Paul McCartney
topping the list with his £680 million ($1.04 billion) fortune he
shares with wife Nancy Shevell, who is said to be worth £150 million.
Andrew Lloyd Webber was second with £620 million, while U2 were third
with £520 million.
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